BRITAIN LEADS

Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN LEADS

NEW TYPE OF AERO ENGINE SUCCESSFUL TESTS IN LINER AND BOMBER (NLZ.P.A. Special Correspondent.) LONDON, April 27. The world’s first jet-propelled airliner successfully underwent tests at Bristol when a Nene-Lancastrian was demonstrated. It was followed by a demon* stration of an Avro-Lincoln bomber, fitted with two Bristol Theseus airscrew turbines of a new type, which will give the heavy aircraft a speed of from 300 to 500 miles an hour. A correspondent who flew in the bomber was impressed by the lack of vibration. One described it as like the sensation when a car moved from low gear to top. The Theseus engines will be used first in the Handley Page Hermes, which is expected to be able to carry 63 passengers through the substratosphere at nearly 350 miles an hour. The engines are designed to give maximum commercial speeds with high economy in fuel consumption Mr Arthur Woodburn, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, after flying in the Avro-Lincoln bomber said: u Tho moans and groans we hear about British aircraft might make people-think we are down and out, yet to-day we celebrate the occasion when Britain once again has taken the l«d_ in installing a new type of engine, which will hold the field in a speed range of between 300 and 500 miles an hour. It will hold the field against all comers.